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Cuba Will Keep Following Fidel Castro Ideas
 Havana, Dec 1 (ACN) "We will keep on fighting for Fidel Castro's ideas
and dreams, since they are our principles," said Cuban Foreign Minister
Felipe Perez Roque on Thursday during the International Colloquium
"Memory and Future: Cuba and Fidel", which concludes Friday afternoon.
"Our enemies are counting the minutes, hoping and waiting for the demise
of Fidel, but they fail to understand that Fidel is all the people; he
is every man and every woman on the planet willing to fight for a better
world," said Perez Roque in a panel called "Homeland is Humanity", which
was part of the colloquium bringing together nearly 2,000 personalities
from eighty countries.
"The adversaries of the Cuban Revolution are really dreaming, and they
are wrong when they think that because of the physical absence of the
head of the Cuban Revolution they could wipe out the ideas, convictions
and the principles planted by Fidel in his people and in the world," he
added.
"All that Fidel wants to bequeath are his ideas, nothing else.
Recovering and returning to the struggle, he will once again be
defeating his enemies, those who are so full of hatred and mediocrity,"
Perez Roque asserted. He praised the Guayasamin Foundation for having
convinced the Cuban leader to celebrate his birthday; otherwise, he said
such celebrations might have been very intimate and modest.
Perez Roque highlighted Fidel Castro's honesty and rejection of vanity,
a value he has taught all those around him. He stressed the close
friendly relations between the Cuban people and their historic leader,
whom they see as a father, an older brother and part of their own
family.
The island has been strong during this particular moment in history, in
which Cubans have calmly, firmly and hopefully followed the recovery of
Fidel Castro, who has enjoyed a health of steel over the years.
The Cuban Revolution saved itself and will remain victorious because it
defended unity and only with unity it will save itself in the future,
said the Cuban Foreign Minister. He was referring to the bitter
experiences during the first Cuban Independence War from Spanish
colonial rule, in which freedom and independence were not obtained but
the unity of the movement finally triumphed.
Perez Roque stressed the strong ethical values and the absence of hatred
in Fidel Castro, even towards his enemies, as well as the coherence of
the Cuban Revolution and the force of the example, the use of the truth
as a weapon and human sensibility.
He also underscored the modesty of Fidel; his constant interest in
learning, his personal discipline and search for perfection, the
strength of his ideas and his hopes for justice for all.
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